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Today's title is courtesy of Kamie. It is his Mandarin pronunciation of "The Love Boat."

Today was another interesting, funny, and long day in China! We were up around 5:30am... showered, dressed, and suitcases packed. We ate another fishy egg with toast breakfast and then put our checked bags outside of our room with our tour group luggage tags attached.

After breakfast this morning I got tickled and it was because of Newman - he is free ...

... no plane!). So onto these giant buses to somewhere else and off we went, delayed by around 2 hours. The cruise ship doesn't leave until the morning. It is 8pm on the plane as I type this, so dinner will be at around 10pm. I do have to mention that the light meal we were given just now was the dodgiest meal I have seen! Not really edible, so dinner can't come soon enough! Phil had some glasses made and they were delivered to the airport for him. The price was so cheap and ...

... We are enjoying a slightly less busy schedule - a nice break in the middle of the tour. The boat itself is pretty comparable to the Viking boat I was on in the summer - except the wine they serve isn't as good. One lovely thing is that whenever we go out anywhere, the staff are placed about every 6-8 feet to wish us well and remind us to watch our footings at tricky spots, and the same when we get back. We are greeted with wet towels and a drink. Very pleasant. ...

... journey, which took us a few hundred kilometres further inland to Yichang. Once at the station we taxied to the Yichang ferry terminal where we were lucky to meet a French guy who spoke Chinese and helped us book the bus/fast boat combo for our Yangtze River trip the next day. Pleased with our progress we went across the road to the modern mall which had a great Walmart allowing us to stock up and Jen to buy a new t-shirt ...